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TIL in 2002, Golan Cipel was appointed as counselor to the Governor of New Jersey, a $110,000-a-year job. NJ officials were baffled how he got the job with virtually no qualifications. It was later uncovered that Cipel was the Governor's secret male lover.

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awjxJ TIL that the world's largest cemetery is Wadi-us-Salaam ("Valley of Peace") in Najaf, Iraq - it contains tens of millions of bodies over an area of 6 km², and approximately 500,000 new bodies from around the globe are buried there annually
R9w9 TIL A man named Charles Holden picked up a hitchhiker, got into a fight with him and ditched him ½ mile away from his house. Later this hitchhiker walked up to a house and killed an elderly woman. This woman was Charles’ mother. The hitchhiker didn’t know they were related.
69ERY TIL when Wolves were reintroduced to Yellow stone national park in 1995, the population of Beavers grew massively as there was less Elk to eat the Willow needed for Beavers to survive the winter. The Beaver dams also counter erosion and create new pond and marsh habitats for lots of other species.
jNkbj TIL Walt Disney almost died during the 1918 influenza pandemic. He became so sick he was released from the Army to go home so his parents could take care of him.
ZdRR TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”